Books your Boss Doesn't Want you to Read IV : : Enigin Stories

May 21st, 2011 posted by enigin

We have book shelves in the Enigin offices with mainly business and energy saving tomes - as you would expect for a successful energy saving business.

We know how important it is to keep in touch with the leading lights in business and particularly the energy saving and sustainability business.

But here are the final three books your boss wouldn?t like to see you reading:

Book 7. The Good Old Days draws upon prints and photographs from the Bettmann Archive to illustrate what life was really like in the United States from the 1870s to the 1910 or so, when laissez faire capitalism was the law of the land.? This makes it the perfect book if you want to discover the utopia that is the natural result of a business environment without labor unions.

You?ll learn how the lack of workplace safety resulted in the death of thousands of workers every year. You?ll learn how railroad companies paid the families of workers who died on the job exactly one week?s wage. You?ll learn how children were forced to work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, on machines that could remove a hand if any mistake was made.

The reason that your boss doesn?t want you to read this book is that it reveals all too clearly why labor unions are pretty good idea, when you consider the alternative, which is sociopathic corporate behavior.Since your boss is probably pushing you to work 60 hour weeks with no overtime pay, this book might convince you that a labor union might not be all that bad an idea.

BOTTOM LINE: Read this book, and you might want to join or form a labor union.

Amazon: The Good Old Days?They Were Terrible!

Book 8. Ask the Headhunter. Forget everything you know about job-hunting. All that stuff about sending out resumes, answering interview questions, and registering on job boards.? All that stuff is completely nonsense. Almost nobody gets a job using those traditional methods, and nobody ever gets a GOOD job that way.

Ask the Headhunter provides the step by step methods that high powered executive headhunters use to develop opportunities for their job-hunting clients. Much of Nick?s advice sees heretical at first, but once you actually understand how the business world really works, his methods have the undeniable ring of truth.

Your boss doesn?t want you to read this book because, armed with its contents, there?s absolutely no reason on God?s green earth that you won?t be able to go out, today, and find a better job than the one you?ve already got.? It?s that simple.

BOTTOM LINE: Read this book, and you?ll be able to find your dream job? somewhere else.

Amazon: Ask the Headhunter: Reinventing the Interview to Win the Job

Book 9. The Dilbert Principle. What can I say? The Dilbert Principle is simply the best (and the funniest) business book ever written. Scott Adams is like some kind of mythical superhero who can see into the very soul of the business world.? He perfectly captures the absurdity of everything that takes place there, while puncturing every bloated corporate balloon that ever floated past a cubicle.

I don?t want to spoil the book for you, so I?ll quote instead from an interview that I conducted with Scott right after The Dilbert Principle was published.? Here?s what he had to say about economic forecasting:

?There are, in general, two ways to predict the future.? For example, you can use horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, crystal ball, and so forth.? Collectively, these are known as the ?nutty methods.?? Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as ?a complete waste of time.?? While all these approaches have their advantages, I find it?s a lot easier and economical to simply make stuff up.?

Pure brilliance.

Your boss doesn?t want you to read this book, because it punctures all the bloated myths of the corporate world and reveals it as a repository of absurdity, contradiction and human foolishness.

BOTTOM LINE: Read this book and you?ll never take work seriously again.

Amazon: The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle?s-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions

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